A short account of Sha'arayim (Khirbet Qeiyafa), given by your Gilad Suffrin, your Israel private tour guide “Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was [...]
A short account of Shivta, given by your Israel & Jerusalem private tour guide "While there are many Arabian tribes who use the desert as pasture, the Nabataeans far surpass the others in wealth although they are not much more than ten thousand in number; for not a few of them are accustomed to bring [...]
A short account of Tel Be’er Sheva, given by your Israel & Jerusalem private tour guide "And he said: 'Verily, these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well. Wherefore that place was called Beer-sheba; because there they swore both of [...]
A short account of Nahal Taninim given by your Israel & Jerusalem private tour guide " "Some of the Arabs we sent to Wadi Zarka to look for a crocodile managed to hunt one that was over 11 ft. long. They brought it to us to Nazareth and its head is still with me……" (Henry [...]
A short account of Apollonia, given by your Israel & Jerusalem private tour guide Memories of youth bring to mind summer drives to a high, beautiful sandstone cliff, 10 miles north of Tel Aviv. On top of the cliff, looking down at the sea, a large mosque called Sidna Ali stood. The mosque was deserted, [...]
short account of Cana, given by your Israel & Jerusalem private tour guide On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee….. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine…." Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification….. [...]
A short account of Magdala (Migdal Nunia, Taricheae) given by your Israel & Jerusalem private tour guide "And now Vespasian pitched his camp between this city and Taricheae, but fortified his camp more strongly, ….. for all the innovators had gotten together at Taricheae, as relying upon the strength of the city, and on the [...]
A short account of Beit She'arim, given by your Israel & Jerusalem private tour guide Amidst a small, lovely park in the lower Galilee, in very quiet surroundings, lies the most fascinating Jewish cemetery in the country - a true necropolis. Why here? What is the story behind it? How old is the site? How [...]
A short account of the Tel Aviv, given by your Israel & Jerusalem private tour guide History Until the late 1800’s, the only city on the central coast of the country was Jaffa, mostly populated with Arabs, but still having a small Jewish community. Only in 1906, did the idea of having a modernized independent [...]
A short account of the Nimrod Fortress, given by your Israel & Jerusalem private tour guide The Nimrod Fortress is the biggest and most well-preserved medieval mountain fortress in the country. It sits on the slopes of Mt. Hermon, on the highway from northern Israel and southern Lebanon, through Banias, to the Golan Heights and [...]
